22 Responses to CO2 Has The Power To Make Scientists Incredibly Stupid

I’ll take it!
We have 5 new glaciers, as depicted by 2 year old snow in the ravines to the tune of 44′ deep.
Since it did not melt over the summer as it has over the past 10 years, I do believe we’ll have a nice reflective blanket for a while to come.
The 5 visible are just that, visible from my front yard.
Looking further (via small aircraft), we see approximately 135 more just on the north end of The “Wrangell-Saint Elias” National Park!

Here is a link to the Australian climate summary for 2011. The old bullshit detector is going off!

Page 1, decadal mean temp is increasing. GISS and BOM Australia shows no change over 100 years at a bunch of places in Australia where UHI isn’t a factor. (Until they get modified by some graduate)
Page 2 – Two La Nina’s cause a wettest 2 year period record. Like rain never happened before. Page 3 – Average rainfall is trending up. Huh? On the driest continent? Good.
Page 6-9 Australia has temperature changes with the change of seasons. Stop the presses.
Page 10-13 Australia has rainfall variation consistent with seasons changing
Page 14 Rainfall is above average across the entire continent for 2011. (Old news on this site)
Page 22 – Sea levels change at different rates in different parts of the ocean. What??? Is gravity different across the planet? This one takes the cake.
Page 23 – Global sea levels rising at 3.2 mm per year? Looks like repeating someone else’s stuff from IPCC or somewhere?

This is why I’m so mystified that Will Steffen and Tim Flannery were pushing the permanent drought meme for so long. When la Nina comes by we get increased sea surface temperatures around Oz, and rainfall rises. So if global warming occurs it is logical to think sea surface temperatures rise and we get more rain, not less. All I can think is that the message “woe, permanent drought, woe” suited their aims better than “well we’re going to get more rain and won’t need those desal plants anymore”. The punters might get the wrong message if the effect here of global warming might be good.

Also: “How can we be sure we’ve destroyed them all? There may be idiots in every university in the country…in the world! Keep watching the skies!” (From “Them!”, “The Thing”, “Terror From the Year 2000”, and “Forbidden Planet”, and… every science fiction movie ever made)

Global Warming implies warming. In a warmer world, we would not see more snow, but rain. That’s how physics works. Emissions have little to do with it (correlation/causation fallacy). Now they’re predicting no snow by 2020? Based on…climate models. Oh wow.

I love the “one group of scientists” weasel word – and they don’t mention any.